Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-25
England.

LONDON, March Pin the House o
Commons this evening the debate on to-
motion for urgency for the coercion bill
was resumed by Mr.. Gladstone. He re
ferred TO the unprecedented position o
the House, which had already sat two
months, during which he said It's indie
pendent initiative had been suppressed
| Even now the Conservatives eXulted ovel
the prospect of passing motion forcing
the House to Observation-Disclosures oft:
whole time until the bill of an extreme IL
severe character had been carried. The
House was threatened with frequent ap
plicatiOn of cloture if the debates wers
protracted. No greater calamity
could befall the House than this sort OF
pressure. 1t would sap the authority Of
| the chair and bring the procedure rules
into disrepute. He had seen more par
| liamentary life than any other man in the
| House, but he never knew of so grave 8
state Of affairs. 1t was due to the ex
! IRENE abuse Of power by the majority,
which, if persisted in, would leave be-
! hind sense Of intOlerahle wrong, The
| yoke thus put upon the neck of the House
would not be borne patiently. The posi-
| ton Of affairs WAS very different from that
when the coercion bill of 81 passed.
No papers were before the House now,
nor was there any Indication of the ma
ture OF the proposed government meas-
ure. Heretofore in asking special legis-
ton for dealing with crime in Ireland
ministers tried to show the terrible prev
alence of crime that threatened social Or
der. Was that the case now? No, the
House hada been told the number of
agrarian Offenses prior to the passage of
FOrsteer'S coercion act exceeded the
highest number since. The crimes, how
ever, were Of q different character from
those which the government now
sought to check. Present crime consisted
in combining to obtain a reduction OF rent
Irish cheers Even the evidence which
the government put before the House
showed this crime was restricted TO the
demands for Just attachments of rent.
Never had any former coercion act been
resisted by majority OF the members
from Ireland cheers F. Now the protest
was against coercion from an OYerWhelm-
ing majority of the Irish members
TCheers Had the government any just
claim for demanding coercion or the urg-
enCy for new repressive measures? After
appointing commission to examine on
the spot the rent question and the evils
arising from the land laws the Govern
ment now put aside the recommendations
of the commission and asked Parliament
for increased power to make laws still
more offensive to the general sense Of the
people. Irish cheers General Bull
ler's evidence proved tenants not pay
ing rent were anxious to pay, that there
was no general movement against the
payment of rent, but only
combined effort to obtain fair
rent. The Irish people were apt
to follow the example constantly
set by others and see what they could
make out of exclusive dealing. TCheers
The government said contracts should
not be broken, yet BalfOur, while preach
ing the doctrines of the sanity of cen
tracts, was going to introduce a bill
breaking lease hold contracts adjusted
under the land act of 1881 just as judicial
rents were. So it was not to vindicate
the sanctity of contracts nor depress the
widespread outbreak Of crime that the
government now demanded coercion tor
Ireland. OF whatever nature the gov
eminent measure should turn out to be
ii was the duty of the Liberals, whether
in the minority or majority, to refuse
urgency. He trusted the people of En-
gland would see the Liberals united in
opposing this i'll omened measure to the
last stage, and Liberal members would
ring out the voices Of justice and reason
against government which after eighty
six years Of experience was preparing,
under the name of a statute of Parlit-
ment, to strike fresh blow at the life
and happiness Of Ireland and at the pros
perity OF the continent and the unity of
the empire CCheers].
GREETED MANNING.
LONDON, March Pa United States
Consul Jordan and number of American
residents of Liverpool went to the mouth
Of the Mersey in special steamer and
heartily greeted ex-Secretary Manning on
the arrival of the Arizona.